Opinion Forum

The Tragedy of Haiti

January 18th, 2010

By Tom Carter Like most everyone else, I’m following the news out of Haiti pretty closely. The photos and videos are appalling. Estimates of the number of dead range from 50,000 to 200,000 or more, but no one knows the true number. Many more thousands of people are injured. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, living in the streets [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: aid, corruption, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, reconstruction, violence
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The Pressure Group Plan

January 17th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin In Ayn Rand’s We the Living, one of the ways in which Rand points out that health care in Communist countries is really free only in theory is when she details the desperate search of her main characters Kira and Leo for help with Leo’s incipient tuberculosis: In the first State hospital [Kira] [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Ayn Rand, SEIU, socialism, taxes, unions
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The Potential for a U.S. Default

January 16th, 2010

By Tom Carter Hmmm. I find myself in the unusual position of mostly agreeing with Pat Buchanan twice in rapid succession. In Is a U.S. Default Inevitable?, he takes a quick macro look at the financial situation of the U.S. and concludes that things are pretty bleak. His analysis can be criticized for being short on [...]

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Tags: Buchanan, default, Democrats, federal budget, Republicans, taxes
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How Much Is Too Much?

January 15th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Somewhere between health care reform and pay raises for politicians, I lost all track of the non-stop Obama tax machine. I’m surrendering myself to the reality that my descendants will have to pay for taxes imposed during my lifetime. The thought of such a hateful legacy is best ignored lest I go [...]

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Tags: bailout, banks, Haiti, health care, stimulus, taxes
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Why They Are at War with Us

January 14th, 2010

By Tom Carter I disagree with Pat Buchanan more often than not. However, in a recent column he asked and answered questions about why Islamic extremists, al-Qaeda in particular, are at war with the West and particularly with the U.S. We routinely denounce the religious extremism of the backward culture that spawns them, but we don’t often [...]

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Tags: al-Qaeda, Buchanan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, terrorist, war on terror
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What Harry Said

January 13th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Another writer asked if Harry Reid should resign for comments he made about Obama in 2008. As much I would enjoy seeing Harry go down, I don’t see his comments as the vehicle to cause his demise. After all, his comments were true. We have in this country a segment of the [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Lott, Obama, Reid, resign, resignation
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Should Harry Reid Resign?

January 12th, 2010

By Tom Carter Apparently there’s no end to the political dust being kicked up by Game Change, the new book on the 2008 presidential campaigns by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Politicians left and right are being wounded by their own words and the assessments of their own staffs. As anyone who’s turned on a TV or opened [...]

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Tags: Bush, Lott, negro, Obama, Reid, resign, resignation, Thurmond
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The Fall of John Edwards

January 10th, 2010

By Tom Carter There’s a book just coming out, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Both are experienced political journalists with access to well-placed sources. There’s already criticism of the book, particularly from those whose oxen have been gored [...]

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Tags: Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, National Enquirer, Reille Hunter, scandal
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Justice for Terrorists

January 9th, 2010

By Tom Carter The Obama Administration’s decision to try some terrorists in federal court as common criminals is controversial. This policy has been applied to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen apprehended in the United States, as well as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others, non-U.S. citizens captured in foreign countries. Other terrorists have also been tried, [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Constitution, enemy combatant, Law, terrorism, terrorist, trial
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Mo Gitmo

January 8th, 2010

By Larry Ennis With the promise of increasing attacks on America, terrorist or otherwise, the question of how we deal with these people continues to beg for an answer. In times past people who committed acts of war against us were considered our enemies and treated as such. For reasons unexplained, the present Administration has chosen [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Constitution, Guantanamo, terrorism, terrorist
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What’s The Rush?

January 7th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin According to an article in USA Today, Obama is still in a tearing hurry to get his “historic” health care bill passed in spite of (or more likely because of) a set of horrendous poll numbers and an utter lack of bipartisan support. Despite his campaign promises of wanting to reach across [...]

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Tags: Dodd, Dorgan, health care, legislation, Obama, polls
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Leadership and Responsibility

January 4th, 2010

By Tom Carter The first refuge of weak leaders is blaming mistakes on subordinates. It’s unacceptable in the military, in corporate hierarchies, and in other settings where the responsibilities and authorities of leadership are understood and practiced. Harry Truman enshrined the concept with the famous maxim, “The buck stops here.” The principle is that a [...]

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Tags: islamist, leadership, Obama, responsibility, terrorism, war
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The President’s Weekly Address

January 3rd, 2010

By Harvey Grund It took a year for President Barack Obama to do it, but in his weekly address to the nation yesterday he finally got mad enough to get his teleprompter to use the word “terrorism.” All those involved in the attempted act of terrorism on Christmas must know you, too, will be held to [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Abdulmutallab, Bush, Christmas, Obama, terrorism, terrorist
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Dave Barry’s Review of 2009

January 2nd, 2010

By Tom Carter Dave Barry has reviewed 2009 through his own weird lens. Like most everything he writes, it’s a great read. Here are a few examples: March An angry nation learns that the giant insurance company AIG, which received $170 billion in taxpayer bailouts and posted a $61 billion loss, is paying executive bonuses totaling hundreds [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: 2009, Dave Barry, review
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Credit to an Anti-Terrorist Muslim

January 1st, 2010

By Harvey Grund Umaru Abdul Mutallab, father of the “Christmas Underwear Bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, needs to be recognized as a very brave man and a true friend of America. Up until now he has only been briefly mentioned for his deed, but an article at Politics Daily by Jeffrey Weiss not only corrects that, [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: al-Qaeda, anti-terrorism, Arab, Mafia, Middle East, Muslim, terrorism
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